Warnock promises to come out swinging

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Our correspondent says that the Sheffield United manager will grace the top flight regardless of his straying verbosity

IT WAS at the League Managers Association meeting this week that Neil Warnock walked among his Barclays Premiership peers and luxuriated in the knowledge that he had finally joined the great and good of English football. Once the debates started, though, Sheffield United’s bellicose manager was soon out on his own again.

Divers will not be welcomed with open arms at Bramall Lane this season. “The World Cup’s been an absolute nightmare for gamesmanship,” Warnock said. “We should use technology [retrospectively] and on the clear-cut cases where there is no doubt whatsoever, they have to be banned for six weeks,